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Principal Software Engineer - Data Foundations

Okta
vision insurance, flexible benefit account, parental leave, 401(k)
United States, Washington, Bellevue
Oct 24, 2025
Get to know Okta Okta is The World's Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology, anywhere, on any device or app. Our flexible and neutral products, Okta Platform and Auth0 Platform, provide secure access, authentication, and automation, placing identity at the core of business security and growth. At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box - we're looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences. Join our team! We're building a world where Identity belongs to you. About the Team The Data Platform team is responsible for the foundational data services, systems, and data products for Okta that benefit our users. Today, the Data Platform team solves challenges and enables: Streaming analytics Interactive end-user reporting Data and ML platform for Okta to scale Telemetry of our products and data Our elite team is fast, creative and flexible. We encourage ownership. We expect great things from our engineers and reward them with stimulating new projects, new technologies and the chance to have significant equity in a company. Okta is about to change the cloud computing landscape forever. About the Position This is a technical leadership opportunity for experienced Software Engineers to join our fast growing Data Platform organization that is passionate about scaling high volume, low-latency, distributed data-platform services & data products. In this high impact role, you will get to work with engineers throughout the organization to build foundational infrastructure that allows Okta to scale for years to come. As a member of the Data Platform team, you will be responsible for designing, building, and deploying the systems that power our data analytics and ML. Our analytics infrastructure stack sits on top of many modern technologies, including Kinesis, Flink, ElasticSearch, and Snowflake. We are looking for experienced Software Engineers who can help architect and own the building, deploying and optimizing the streaming infrastructure. This project has a directive from engineering leadership to make OKTA a leader in the use of data and machine learning to improve end-user security and to expand that core-competency across the rest of engineering. You will have an outsized impact on the direction, design & implementation of the solutions to these problems. Job Duties and Responsibilities: Design, implement and own data-intensive, high-performance, scalable platform components Work with engineering teams, architects and cross functional partners to help drive the technical vision Conduct and participate in design reviews, code reviews, analysis, and performance tuning Coach and mentor engineers to help scale up the engineering organization Debug critical production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: 10+ years of experience in object-oriented language, preferably Java Hands-on experience using a cloud-based distributed computing technologies including Messaging systems such as Kinesis, Kafka Data processing systems like Flink, Spark, Beam Storage & Compute systems such as Snowflake, Hadoop Coordinators and schedulers like the ones in Kubernetes, Hadoop, Mesos Experience in developing and tuning highly scalable distributed systems Excellent grasp of software engineering principles In-depth understanding of multithreading, garbage collection and memory management Detail oriented, have a proven ability to be a technical lead for a project Experience with reliability engineering specifically in areas such as data quality, data observability and incident management Nice to have Maintained security, encryption, identity management, or authentication infrastructure Leveraged major public cloud providers to build mission-critical, high volume services Contributed to the development of distributed systems or used one or more at high volume or criticality such as Kafka or Hadoop Experience developing Kubernetes based services on AWS Stack Hands-on experience in developing Data Integration applications for large scale (petabyte scale) environments with experience in both batch and online systems. Additional requirements: This position requires the ability to access federal environments and/or have access to protected federal data. As a condition of employment for this position, the successful candidate must be able to submit documentation establishing U.S. Person status (e.g. a U.S. Citizen, National, Lawful Permanent Resident, Refugee, or Asylee. 22 CFR 120.15) upon hire. This person must attend in person orientation in San Francisco the first week of work. #LI-Hybrid #LI-MM P16359_3280416 Below is the annual base salary range for candidates located in California, Colorado, New York and Washington. Your actual base salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies. To learn more about our Total Rewards program please visit: https://rewards.okta.com/us. The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York, and Washington is between: $194,000 — $290,000 USD What you can look forward to as a Full-Time Okta employee!** Amazing Benefits Making Social Impact Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community at Okta Okta cultivates a dynamic work environment, providing the best tools, technology and benefits to empower our employees to work productively in a setting that best and uniquely suits their needs. Each organization is unique in the degree of flexibility and mobility in which they work so that all employees are enabled to be their most creative and successful versions of themselves, regardless of where they live. Find your place at Okta today! https://www.okta.com/company/careers/. Some roles may require travel to one of our office locations for in-person onboarding. Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws. If reasonable accommodation is needed to complete any part of the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this Form to request an accommodation. Okta is committed to complying with applicable data privacy and security laws and regulations. For more information, please see our Personnel and Job Candidate Privacy Notice athttps://www.okta.com/legal/personnel-policy/.